Kickstart Your Own Space Program With Firefly, A Flexible Mission Control Board

We’ve previously highlighted the Firefly, an Arduino-compatible system with onboard power, charging, data logging, and radio communications–all the standard stuff that can take a while to piece together individually. The flexible “mission control” board can be used for a variety of projects such as weather balloons or robotics.

The folks at Kentucky Space and Evadot got tired of waiting for enough regular pre-orders to come in (it only makes sense to make them in volume at a good price!), so they’ve developed a funding campaign on Kickstarter to speed things along! Check out their campaign to see details about the board and some of their cool rewards including t-shirts, multiple boards, and tickets to the Cubesat Space Hackers Workshop in October.

Help makes these boards a reality and make it ever easier to create amazingly capable DIY projects!!

Tim Bailey is a space tweep, husband to a brilliant engineer, father of an adventurous preschooler, and proficient at zero gravity flips in multiple axes. In his spare time works with Yuri's Night, the annual worldwide celebration of human spaceflight.